Privacy Policy

Who we are

Her Story is owned and operated by Kristine Sickels. Our website address is https://forherstory.com.

Please direct any questions or concerns to contact@forherstory.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

By default Her Story does not collect any personal data about visitors.

Her Story collects email addresses submitted through our Free Website Audit form, Keep in Touch form, and any pop-ups on our site for free offers or resources.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Personal data is captured when a contact form is submitted, for the specific use that the data was submitted for. Her Story will keep the personal data indefinitely, unless the user requests to be unsubscribed.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

The Her Story website utilizes Google Analytics. A link to their privacy policy can be viewed here.

Who we share your data with

Her Story does not share any personal data submitted on their site with anyone.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that submit information on our website, we also store the personal information provided in their user profile.

What rights you have over your data

If you have submitted information on this site, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.